♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (upbeat guitar music) (happy upbeat music) - Well, this looks like a great book and I'm gonna have to read a little bit.

Hey, welcome back to Discovery Ranch.

I'm Mr. Dawson, and I'm here to take you on discoveries so that you can learn how to read and write.

Join me here each day, so we can learn how to read and write together.

In fact, this is one of our reading days.

That's right.

I am so excited about today, I have a great book.

Can you see it?

Remember, if you will write to me at the studio at Valley PBS or email me, I'm gonna send you an activity book.

Have you seen those?

They're so incredibly great, you'll want one.

How you do you get one?

You write to me and tell me something you've learned this week.

Oh, I'm so excited.

All right, let's get started with the day.

Well, today is our reading day and here is our essential question.

Here we go.

How can you help out at home?

Helping out, yes, helping out at home is very important.

Oh, my goodness, we're gonna be talking all about that.

Yes, how are we gonna do that?

We're gonna do it with our book.

What is our book for today?

Our book is "Peter's Chair".

"Peter's Chair".

Isn't that a great book?

Look at the cover of the book.

How great is that cover?

Yes, that's a great cover.

"Peter's Chair", the author and the illustrator is the same person, is Ezra Jack Keats.

Amazing, amazing author.

Yes, so we're gonna read that book.

Now, remember, we're going to have to determine whether this book was nonfiction or fiction.

Do you remember what those two words mean?

Non-fiction means it is true.

Yes, it's true.

And what does fiction mean?

It means no, it's not true.

So I want you to listen to the story and make the decision of whether this story is nonfiction or fiction.

So now, also remember that I wanna tell you that this book is a narrative book.

There's two types of texts, right?

There's narrative, which means it's a story and informational, which means it's true and it has some information that's good for us.

Well, this one's going to be narrative for sure.

That's right.

So when you're listening to it, you have to find out now whether it's fiction or nonfiction when you listen to it.

And as always at the end, you know I'm going to ask some questions to see if you've really been listening.

If you were really watching, I might ask you questions about something that they read or maybe a picture, you never know.

So when we do this story, I want you to pay attention.

Are you ready for "Peter's Chair"?

All right, let's show "Peter's Chair".

- [Narrator] "Peter's Chair" by Ezra Jack Keats.

"Peter's Chair" by Ezra Jack Keats.

Peter stretched as high as he could, there, his tall building was finished.

Crash, down it came.

"Shh," called his mother.

"You'll have to play more quietly.

"Remember, we have a new baby in the house."

Peter looked into a sister Susie's room.

His mother was fussing around the cradle.

That's my cradle, he thought, and they painted it pink.

"Hi, Peter," said his father, "would you like to help paint "sister's high chair?"

"It's my high chair," whispered Peter.

He saw his crib and muttered, "My crib, "it's painted pink too."

Not far away, stood his old chair.

"They didn't paint that yet," Peter shouted.

He picked it up and ran to his room.

"Let's run away, Willie," he said.

Peter filled a shopping bag with cookies and dog biscuits.

"We'll take my blue chair, my toy crocodile "and the picture of me when I was a baby."

Willie got his bone.

They went outside and stood in front of his house.

"This is a good place," said Peter.

He arranged his things very nicely and he decided to sit in his chair for a while.

But he couldn't fit in the chair, he was too big.

His mother came to the window and called, "Won't you come back to us, Peter, dear, "we have something very special for lunch."

Peter and Willie made believe they didn't hear.

But Peter got an idea.

Soon, his mother saw signs that Peter was home.

"That rascal is hiding behind the curtain," she said happily.

She moved the curtain away but he wasn't there.

"Here I am," shouted Peter.

Peter sat in a grownup chair, his father sat next to him.

"Daddy," said Peter, "let's paint the little chair pink for Susie."

And they did.

- Did you enjoy that story?

That was a great story.

Oh, and it's so cool that Peter did so many things and really had a change of mind.

But let's talk about that.

But before we do, you have to make a decision, is it fake, nonfiction or fiction?

That's right.

It's fiction.

Why is it fiction?

Why was it fiction?

Because it's not a true story, right?

There might be somebody named Peter, but probably not.

Ezra Jack Keats wrote this story and it's a fiction story.

Let's talk about comprehension.

Did you listen, did you look at the pictures?

Did you listen to the story?

Okay, here we go.

Here is my first question.

My first question is what happened to Peter's old furniture?

What happened to all that furniture?

Yes, his mom and dad were taking it and repainting it for his sister.

Oh, my goodness.

How did that make Peter feel?

How do you think that made him feel?

How would you feel if all your furniture was gone to your sister?

Yes, yes, right.

I would be sad too.

So, here's my next question.

What did Peter and his dog do?

What did they do?

Right.

That was cool, he took his chair and he ran.

He was gonna run away and he ran right out to the front yard and took his dog out there and they said, "I'm gonna stay here, I'm gonna protect this chair."

But wait a minute.

Then Peter sat in that chair, and here's my question.

Did he fit in that chair?

No.

Why not, why didn't Peter fit in the chair?

That's right, because as we get older our body grows and we don't fit in things anymore.

Right.

So, what does Peter decide to do?

That's right.

He says, "You know what?

"I can't fit in this chair, "I might as well give it to my sister "because she will able to fit in the chair."

That was a great job.

You guys did an awesome job talking about all those questions and answering all those questions.

You are amazing.

Well, what should we do next?

Well, we should do our writing.

Are you ready to do our writing?

Look at this.

Here's our writing.

Are you ready for it?

I'm gonna put it right up here.

I'm gonna take this off.

And then I'm gonna come over to the other side so we can do some writing.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

I'm gonna get this.

It says which things are important to Peter, draw and label them.

Oh, they're all important.

But do you know the one thing that I think was super important to Peter, what was it?

Yes, they were all important.

But the one thing that I think that he was able to try to save anyway, is the chair.

So I'm going to draw a picture of a chair.

Here we go.

I just do a line straight down.

There you go, there's my chair.

And then I go over and down and then maybe I'll put one here and, does that look like a chair to you?

Hmm, I hope it does.

So, I did the chair, 'cause it says which things are important to Peter, is the chair.

'Cause he took that chair and his dog and went outside.

So what does our sentence starter say?

It says one of Peter's favorite things is his, what was it?

Yes, it was his chair.

Right, one of Peter's favorite things is his chair.

So I have most of the sentence, I think I have to spell chair here.

Let's do our segmenting.

Remember doing that earlier this week.

Let's go, you ready?

Chair.

Okay, here we go, here we go, ch.

Oh, you know what?

A long, long time ago we talked about ch.

That's a digraph.

Do you remember talking about digraphs?

Ch.

Two letters that make one sound.

So I have, ch.

What two letters says, ch?

Right, C and H. There you go.

Now what's the next thing I have.

I have air.

I know it's gonna be an A and an I.

Good job.

Now you helped me, we did the segmenting.

Let's see if we can do that last phoneme.

Are you ready?

Ch, air.

R is for, what?

Right, R. So let's read it.

It says one of Peter's favorite things is his chair.

Oh, when we talked about sentences, it talked about sentences, we have the upper case.

We have the noun and is, is the verb.

And we're done with the sentence.

That's amazing.

Oh, well, we had such a good time here today.

What, what?

There's something missing?

No, we checked it, what's missing?

Let me, I'll check, I'll look.

I see the noun, I see the verb.

I see, oh, it has the uppercase letter.

So what's missing?

Oh, okay, yes.

Now I see it.

The period.

Aha, thank you so much for helping me on that.

Now it's right.

One of Peter's favorite things is his chair.

Nice job.

Oh, my goodness.

You guys caught me on that mistake and that is wonderful.

We've learned so many things today.

We've talked about our essential question about helping out.

And then we talked about our book, "Peter's Chair", and we watched a video and then we answered some questions, which was amazing.

And then we did some writing.

I wonder what we're gonna do tomorrow.

Well, you have to come out tomorrow and find out.

We'll see you later.

Bye.

(upbeat guitar music) ♪ Good morning to a brand new day ♪ ♪ Time to learn and games to play ♪ ♪ Learning things is so much fun ♪ ♪ Learning is good for everyone ♪ (upbeat guitar music)